I hate it when someone announces a podcast that they're doing that looks interesting, but when I look into it there's no RSS feed, and it's just on YouTube/Spotify/another closed platform
It's my crochety, but very firm opinion that it's not a real podcast if there's no RSS. Switching to AntennaPod has been very nice — the interface only gives me what I need and nobody's trying to advertise anything to me — and it also makes it glaringly obvious when something doesn't have a proper RSS feed
I heard on this "The Vergecast" episode (https://www.theverge.com/c/24238422/podcast-etymology-term-history-tech-vergecast) that YouTube is becoming the most popular podcast platform, and that worries me for the openness of the medium